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Hotspot Shield VPN for iPhone allows you to protect your privacy, regardless of where you are or what network you're using, and it allows you to visit blocked sites as well. With this app on your phone, you'll never have to worry about carrying out sensitive transactions in public, and you can switch protection on and off with ease.

Pros

Location options: Through this app, you can choose to connect through several different countries, including the United States, the United Kingdom, Japan, Indonesia, Australia, Denmark, Canada, Hong Kong, and China. To select a location, just swipe through the options, and then tap the one you want. And you can change location at any time through the app's main interface as well.

Essential functions: You can also turn protection on and off directly from the main interface. This is a straightforward process, and it allows you to restore protection with the flip of a switch, just as quickly as you turned it off.

Cons

Some slow connections: While some of the country options provided good connection speeds, this was not true of all of them. In fact, we had little to no success connecting, using China and Denmark.

Bottom Line

Hotspot Shield VPN for iPhone is a convenient and easy-to-use tool to help you stay protected when you're online on your phone. With several effective options for connection countries and a clear interface, this app is a good choice for users of all experience levels. The app itself is free, and you can try out all features for seven days at no charge.

Publisher's Description

Hotspot Shield VPN Proxy is the World's most trusted security, privacy and access app with top performance on speed, stability and security. GET HOTSPOT SHIELD VPN TO. Access all websites and apps securely and privately at home, school, work or from anywhere in the world. Stay private and anonymous online. Prevent anyone from tracking your IP address, identity, and location from websites and online trackers. Enjoy complete anonymity. WHY HOTSPOT SHIELD VPN PROXY. No Logs Kept: Hotspot Shield doesn't track or keep any logs of its users and their activities. You are completely private with Hotspot Shield. FREE and UNLIMITED: You have the choice to use basic features for free (forever) and unlimited access, or simply upgrade to Elite for more features. Trusted by millions: Trusted by more than 500 million global users and featured by Fortune, Forbes, TechCrunch, New York Times and many more renowned media. No sign up, registration, or credit cards required: you don't need to create an account or have a credit card to use the basic features of the app. Unparalleled VPN Performance: Hotspot Shield fully own all the VPN servers, which ensures fastest VPN speed, and most stable and secured VPN connections. Largest VPN Coverage: Powered by AnchorFree, Hotspot Shield offers largest VPN coverage from more than 15 countries including US, UK, JP, IN, AU, CA, CN, TR, UA and more. Support: We are striving to be the best security, privacy and access app, so if you have any questions, simply shoot an email to support@hsselite.com. Get Hotspot Shield VPN Proxy Now. Hotspot Shield Premium (Elite). 7-day free trial - free of charge; no commitment; cancel anytime. Payment will be charged to iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase. Subscription automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the period. Length of subscription: one month; three months; six months; one year. Account will be charged for renewal within 24-hours prior to the end of the current period, and identify the cost of the renewal. Price of subscription: three months - 32.99 dollars; six months - 53.99; one month - 12.99 dollars; one year - 69.99 dollars. Subscriptions may be managed by the user and auto-renewal may be turned off by going to the user's Account Settings after purchase. No cancellation of the current subscription is allowed during active subscription perio. Any unused portion of a free trial period, if offered, will be forfeited when the user purchases a subscription to that publication. ABOUT AnchorFree. AnchorFree is a privately held, venture-backed company based in the Silicon Valley. Anchorfree believes in placing consumers in control of their personal information online. Anchorfree provides millions of users with online security, privacy and access through its most popular VPN product - Hotspot Shield. Follow us on. Google+: plus.google.com/+HotspotShield. Facebook: facebook.com/hotspotshield. Website: https://www.hotspotshield.com/. Lean About VPN Technology: https://goo.gl/tgL10z. Privacy: https://www.hotspotshield.com/privacy/. Terms: https://www.hotspotshield.com/terms/. Copyright 2017 AnchorFree, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Easy to use. Decent customer service, they refunded my elite subscription because i could no longer use the service to gain access to HULU. More reliable than any others i have tried so far. They make it easy to see that you are in fact connected to the VPN with their tray icon.

Cons

This program auto updates whether you like it or not. This means that the program starts downloading the update without your permission and then once the update is installed - the VPN automatically enables, instantly slowing your internet or even interrupting your connection.

I was on a Skype call from overseas when this happened. Internet dropped off, took me a minute or two to figure out what was going on. I am in Afghanistan, i think the satellite service provider must have caught on that we were using a VPN because now when i try to connect it sits there and spins like its trying to connect for minutes but never actually does. I think they may have blocked it somehow. Also, HULU doesn't allow use of VPN's anymore so if you are in Iraq or Afghanistan and the provider doesn't allow for use of HULU then you are SOL.

Summary

I have yet to find a truly good VPN program. I have tried many, i guess this would be considered the best option of all of them - even though its not working right now.

Watch out consumers! This company, Hotspot shield has been charging double amount for my subscription. I have subscribed for 1 year, $29.99. Yet, they automatically charged me monthly subscription fee of $11.99 for last 5 months till I noticed.!!

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Updated on Dec 19, 2015

Watch out consumers! This company, Hotspot shield has been charging double amount for my subscription. I have subscribed for 1 year, $29.99. Yet, they automatically charged me monthly subscription fee of $11.99 for last 5 months till I noticed.!!

gives me access to many sites/apps only available in the US when traveling. I travel frequently for work, so Hotspot Shield has been a live saver. Installing this app should be on everyone's packing list before they travel!

Very easy to use, activate protection just with one click.
Once I had a question, contacted their support team and got a reply very quickly and the guy was very helpful.
Many different IP locations available.
Can use it on up to 5 devices simultaneously.

Cons

I wish it had France among the virtual locations available

Summary

It's a great product overall and pretty cheap compare to other security solutions.

If anything goes wrong with the service, you will be hard pressed to get any customer service. If the problem is beyond what the already have posted online, you will need to go through a number of reps before anything may get done.

Summary

I have been down for a number of weeks without the service that I pay for and am getting absolutely the poorest customer service I have ever experienced with a paid service.If you are using the free Hotspot Shield, I can understand not getting very good service. however, i opted for the "Elite" service. DO NOT WASTE YOUR MONEY. You are better off just using the free service.

The one app that I can use for those sites that are blocked, or where you want to sign-on anonymously for whatever reason. I feel like my data AND transactions ARE safe & secure from being tracked.

Cons

I haven't come across any as of yet! The install went very well in 8.1 Preview despite what I'd read about it's incompatibility w/8.1 on some blog. ? Maybe I got lucky?

Summary

How you use the app depends entirely on your IT needs, your lifestyle & such. Since we're all different, we can all use the portions of the product that we need and disregard the rest. If you find out that it's not the product for your needs, then you can always remove the app, but I doubt that you'll want/need to do that once you get it configured and are able to use it easily! And NO, I'm not a paid spokesperson for cnet or HotSpot. Just a guy who likes a good deal on new technology.

Updated on Sep 19, 2013

SORRY - I got this review mixed up with another of my products that I purchased and downloaded today (hence the reference to Windows 8.1)!!! BUT, I did add it to iTunes and so for I am not having any problems getting it to run and perform as it should on my iPhone 5 and iPad 2 as I'm syncing them now. I'll report more as I continue with this installation.I APOLOGIZE, once again, for getting my reviews confused between all of my devices! Thanks for your patience with me on this and don't send me emails as to how stupid I am - I've admitted that I blundered this review so please don't "nail me to the cross" for making this mistake.Perhaps the Ops can remove my review on this item? I didn't see anywhere on cnet where I could do this for myself. :-) Have a great day and give an old man a break if you're gonna send negative comments as to my honest MISTAKE!

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